#Checkoff

I received this email from USDA’s MyPlate group: Hi Marion MyPlate National Strategic Partners, a group developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), just announced the launch of a new resource to help Americans build healthier sandwiches! The full press release is below, and

Jerry Hagstrom’s Hagstrom Report, to which I subscribe, often has information I would not otherwise see.  Here’s one example. He reported that USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service finally released its analysis of dairy checkoff programs, supposedly due annually by law.  No reports were published

I could hardly believe this ad in the New York Times last Friday. Cattle as a promoter of biodiversity? My usual question: Who paid for this? The only clue was the little checkmark and in tiny letters “Funded by beef farmers and ranchers.” I did the thing with the QR code and went straight to

My colleague, Lisa Young, forwarded this ad to me from the weekend’s Wall Street Journal. In case it’s too small for you to read, the ad makes some eyebrow-raising points: “If all U.S. livestock were eliminated and every American followed a vegan diet, greenhouse gas emissions 0would only be

Just in time for Halloween, the zombie is back. I can hardly believe that the deeply discredited Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF)is on the attack again with another one of its snarky full-page ads in the New York Times (Monday, October 28). The Center is infamous for secrecy about who pays for